This historic treasure—the only known handwritten final draft of the speech, recently rediscovered after being stored in the desk drawer of aide Edward T. Clayton for decades—is being offered to benefit several charities, including the Xernona Clayton Foundation and The King Center.
NEW YORK, NY.- At approximately 4 AM on August 28, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., after hours of writing and editing in his room at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, completed the speech that he would give at the March on Washington later that day. Focused on limiting his remarks to five minutes, and considering both word choice and flow, Dr. King wrote the final draft of the speech in blue ink across seven yellow legal pad pages after days of discussions with many advisors—including trusted speech writer Edward T. Clayton. These seven handwritten pages would be given to his assistants to be typed and sent to the media. Hours later, he would deliver those words, known as the “I Have A Dream” speech, to 250,000 people. The stirring words that he delivered that afternoon have come to be regarded as the most important speech of the 20th Century, and one of the most important speeches in American history. Now, decades later, those seven yellow pages with Dr. King's distinctive ... More
Superior Confection 5c 1776 Gold Award vendor slot machine with three pictorial reels. Rare, exceptionally beautiful and in wonderful condition, with keys included. Worked when tested. Size: 24in x 14in x 12in. Graded excellent. Estimate: $6,000-$8,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO .- American merchants, manufacturers and entrepreneurs have known for centuries that it pays to advertise. Even in colonial times, eye-catching signage was the best way to identify a venue, point to a service or increase a product’s sales. Today, it’s the historic signs themselves that generate monetary value, as those who frequent Milestone’s Antique Advertising auctions would know. On November 21, the Ohio-based company will roll out an 843-lot selection of high-quality antique and vintage advertising signs as well as early gambling, vending, slot, music and sports-themed arcade machines. Clocks, neons, petroliana, automobilia, breweriana, and soda pop machines round out the huge variety of rare items to be auctioned. The sale will be conducted live and webcast from the company’s metro-Cleveland gallery. All forms of remote bidding are also available, including absentee, by phone and live via the Internet through Milestone Live and three other online bidding platfor ... More
Actual first-printing issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (Mirage Studios, 1984). Sold for $192,000.
YORK, PA.- A first printing copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, CGC-graded 9.8 and signed by TMNT artists and co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, climbed to $192,000, and a CGC 9.4 Signature Series copy of Gobbledygook #1, with a back cover ad for TMMT #1 that pre-dated the Turtles’ official debut, hit $132,000 in Hake’s auction of Part I of the Lawrence Klein collection. Online bidding on all 233 lots closed on October 21. The Lawrence Klein collection is an astounding assemblage of vintage comic books and original comic book art amassed by one of the industry’s truly legendary collectors and longtime insiders. Klein was a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the terrapin team's very beginnings back in 1984, so it should come as no surprise that the top three lots in the sale were associated with the much-beloved “Heroes in a Half Shell.” The first printing copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (Mirage Studios, 1984) featured the origin story and fi ... More
Analysis of Native American cultural property repatriation cases and their implications for museums, collectors, and the art market under NAGPRA. Courtesy of ArtTrak.
DALLAS, TX.- The expanding repatriation of Native American cultural property is reshaping museum collections and raising important questions for private collectors, dealers, and appraisers. The most significant development is the application of NAGPRA not only to ancestral remains and archaeological materials, but also to historic ceremonial objects, baskets, clothing, and other works traditionally collected as Native American art. The following cases are organized by institution, with particular attention to the objects involved, the status of the proceedings, and their implications for the art market. A September 2026 federal notice identified three culturally significant Northwest Coast objects for possible repatriation, with transfer permitted beginning October 23, 2026, subject to the applicable claims process. These are especially important categories of material in the Northwest Coast art market. Historic rattles, ceremonial headdresses, and carved feast utensils can command substantial pric ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting UNREAL, an exhibition of new paintings by Julie Curtiss. Opening on November 10 at 541 West 24th Street, this is the gallery’s first presentation of Curtiss’s work in New York. Curtiss’s stylized figures are positioned so their faces remain obscured, while the paintings’ cropped compositions of isolated body parts construct an overarching narrative of humanistic observation and sly humor. Set in a metropolitan fever dream of intimate apartment interiors, laundromats, bodegas, and a fortune teller’s window, this body of work examines life in New York City, reflecting on identity, gender, and aging with a pervasive feeling of unreality. “Nothing feels real right now,” Curtiss observes. “It’s not even surreal, just the feeling that nothing can be trusted. We are bombarded with fake everything, AI everything, infiltrating our lives and our sense of reality.” In Makeover (2026), two women on the street become symbols o ... More
WUPPERTAL.- More than eight decades after Nazi persecution forced the dispersal of one of Germany's important private art collections, a painting by Max Slevogt has been returned to the family of its former owner. The Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal announced on November 9, 2026, that it had restituted Birds of Paradise (Paradiesvögel), painted in 1900, to the heirs of Eduard Fuchs, a writer, cultural historian, art collector, and outspoken opponent of National Socialism. The decision follows research into the painting's ownership history and the circumstances under which Fuchs was compelled to sell his collection in the 1930s. Although the work passed through an auction house rather than being permanently seized directly by the Nazi authorities, investigators concluded that its sale was inseparable from the persecution Fuchs suffered. For the museum, which acquired the painting in 2006, the restitution means surrendering an artwork that had belonged to its collection for nearly two decades. For ... More
Monica Poole, Dry September (1980), Wood engraving, The Brown Collection.
SUDBURY.- This autumn, Gainsborough’s House holds the first monographic exhibition in the UK in more than 30 years dedicated to the wood engravings of Monica Poole (1921-2003). Monica Poole: Nature’s Dark Beauty features over 20 wood engravings, showcasing the exquisite detail that has secured her place as one of the leading practitioners of the medium in the interwar and post-war years. The last retrospective of her work was at the Ashmolean Museum in 1993, 10 years before her death at the age of 82. Since then, her reputation has continued to grow, and her work resides in many collections across the world including the Ashmolean Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum among many others. This exhibition is an in-depth opportunity to see the work that was being produced during a flourishing of interest in wood-engraved books celebrating the English countryside. During this revival of wood engraving, Poole remained rooted in the traditions o ... More
ROME.- Nearly 2,000 years after their creation, the painted faces of men, women, and children from Roman Egypt are meeting the public once again in an extraordinary exhibition at Rome's Museo dell'Ara Pacis. "The Power of Portraiture: Egypt and Rome — The Faces of Fayum," on view from November 5, 2026, through May 2, 2027, brings together more than 110 ancient works to explore how portraiture became a powerful expression of identity, memory, and cultural exchange. At the heart of the exhibition are nearly 50 Fayum mummy portraits, among the most remarkable surviving examples of ancient painting. With their expressive eyes, carefully arranged hairstyles, and individual facial features, these portraits offer an unusually immediate encounter with people who lived during the first centuries of the Roman Empire. Painted on exceptionally thin wooden panels, often using pigments mixed with heated wax in a technique known as encaustic, the portraits were originally placed over the faces of mummi ... More
Jan van Huysum (1682–1749), Fruits, including grapes, peaches, figs and a pineapple, with hollyhocks and poppies in a sculpted vase, in a landscape, signed and dated 1732 and 1733. Oil on panel, 31½ x 23¾ in. (79.9 x 60.3 cm.).
LONDON.- A Vase of Flowers and Fruit with Flowers are the only known large-scale fruit and flower pendants by the peerless still-life painter Jan van Huysum in private hands (estimate: £6,000,000-8,000,000). These magnificent panels will lead Christie's Old Masters Evening Sale in London on 8 December, during Classic Week. Painted with dazzling skill at the height of the artist's career in the early 1730s, their exceptional quality is matched by distinguished provenance spanning three of the most notable European art collecting dynasties in history: the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel, the Barings and the Rothschilds. Remarkably, they have remained together since their creation. Part of a private English collection for the last eighty years, the sale of these pictures presents the market with a unique opportunity. The paintings are on tour to New York (until 16 November), ahead of being on public view in London for the pre-sale exhibition (4-8 December). Andrew Fletcher, Christie's Global Head of th ... More
Chris Giglio. Photo: Courtesy of AFAM.
NEW YORK, NY.- During its fall meeting, the Board of Trustees of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) elected communications executive and lifelong folk art collector Christopher C. Giglio as its new President. Giglio, a senior managing director at Rubenstein Communications, brings more than two decades of experience in corporate leadership to the role, in addition to his passion for the museum, its exhibitions, and collections. He succeeds Elizabeth V. Warren, a former longtime AFAM curator and Trustee, who will remain on the Board as President Emerita. “It is a distinct honor to be selected to lead the Board of Trustees of the nation's museum of folk and self-taught art at this critical juncture in its nearly seven-decade history. The caliber and dedication of my fellow Trustees, combined with the tireless efforts of our superb professional Staff, acclaimed exhibitions, top-tier collections, situate us perfectly for sustained success, impact and growth in the coming decade.” “We are s ... More
Letter with original woodcut, 1920. From the correspondence with Alois Schardt and their families, 1920–1955. Estimate: €150,000–€250,000. Courtesy Ketterer Kunst. Catalogue photography: Marc Autenrieth.
HAMBURG.- An extraordinary archive of letters by German-American artist Lyonel Feininger, spanning the rise of the Bauhaus, the upheavals of Nazi Germany and the artist's later years in the United States, will lead Ketterer Kunst's Rare Books auction in Hamburg on November 23, 2026. Estimated at €150,000 to €250,000, the previously unpublished correspondence offers an unusually personal record of one of the most influential artists associated with twentieth-century modernism. The archive is the centerpiece of an evening auction bringing together illuminated medieval manuscripts, landmark publications in photography, rare maps, early scientific books and important examples of modern printmaking. Among the other highlights is an extensive collection of Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking photographic journal Camera Work, estimated at €60,000. Ketterer Kunst's 610th auction will take place at its Hamburg premises, with the afternoon session beginning at 1:30 p.m. and the evening sale a ... More
Karla Knight, Astronomy for Everybody, 2026. Flashe, acrylic marker, pencil, and embroidery on cotton, 55 1/2 x 38 inches (141 x 96.5 cm).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris is presenting Fine Tuner, the first solo exhibition of Karla Knight on the West Coast. On view November 5 through December 23, the exhibition brings together Knight's newest "tapestries"—large works on reclaimed cotton sacks—alongside recent paintings, collages, and works on paper, as well as pages from her Spaceship Notebooks. Nearly all of the works are being shown publicly for the first time. For more than four decades, Karla Knight (b. 1958, New York, NY) has developed a visual lexicon that is both pictographic—spaceships, orbs, eyes—and logographic, made up of imaginary language, charts, and invented signs. She arranges these elements into orderly, diagrammatic compositions that resemble astronomical charts, instruction manuals, or control panels for some unknown purpose. Her sources are at once archaic and of the space age, among them Surrealism, early twentieth-century abstraction, Jungian psychology, and astronomy. “My work has no k ... More
Babe Ruth Contract Signed ("Geo . H. Ruth"). One page, 9 x 13 1/8 inches, September 7th, 1920.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage’s Nov. 16 Historical Documents Including Texana Signature® Auction is a trip through time, with stops at some of the most consequential and fascinating turning points in history. The auction includes letters and documents signed by Texas founding fathers and European royalty, a legendary Western artist’s annotated textbook from his only period of formal art training, crucial founding documents from the U.S. Coinage System, revised manuscripts from literary giants, charts and logbooks from pioneers of aviation and exploration, and much more. A historic tour contract guaranteeing George Herman “Babe” Ruth $10,000 for 10 exhibition games in Cuba between Oct. 31–Nov. 14, 1920, is linked to some of the most storied achievements of the most famous baseball player to ever play the game. After his explosive first year on the team with which he is most closely associated, Ruth joined manager John McGraw’s Giants against Cuban squads comprising the era’ ... More
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Yukiko Yamagata appointed Executive Director of Print Center New York NEW YORK, NY.- Print Center New York announced the appointment of Yukiko Yamagata as its next Executive Director. Yamagata will build upon the organization’s commitment to presenting a diverse range of high quality exhibitions and public programming that expand access to and understanding of printmaking. She will succeed Judy Hecker, Executive Director Emerita, following her decade-long tenure, and will work in close partnership with Jenn Bratovich, Chief Curator at Print Center New York, who has been serving as Acting Executive Director since June. Yamagata will begin her role on November 9. “Yukiko brings to Print Center a unique combination of leadership experience in the arts, philanthropy and organizational development, alongside a clear and inspiring vision for how Print Center can be best positioned in this next chapter of the organization’s growth,” said Board Chair David Sabel. “Our Board of Trustees—led by a Search Committee representing the diverse stakeholder ... More
CARA Fellowship awards $75,000 to artists Pepón Osorio and Ming Smith NEW YORK, NY .- The Center for Art, Research and Alliances announced the recipients of the fourth iteration of the CARA Fellowship: Pepón Osorio and Ming Smith. The CARA Fellowship acknowledges mid-to-late career artists and artists’ legacies across disciplines, with an intention to uplift voices and knowledges that offer alternatives to established historical perspectives. In recognition of their groundbreaking artistic practices and profound cultural impacts, Osorio and Smith will receive unrestricted $75,000 awards and individually tailored support from CARA over the course of the two-year term. “The CARA Fellowship recognizes that sustaining an artistic practice also means supporting the life around it, not just for the period of the fellowship. We work closely with each fellow to understand what they need and what they want to make possible—for their work, their lives, and their legacies,” said Manuela Moscoso, CARA’s Executive and Artistic Director. “Pepón Osorio an ... More
Roméo Mivekannin confronts colonial history and "human zoos" in Paris museum exhibition PARIS.- The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is presenting "Silent Violence: Through the Eyes of Roméo Mivekannin," an exhibition examining the colonial history of museums and the troubling legacy of the so-called "human zoos" that operated in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Opening November 10, 2026, and continuing through April 4, 2027, the exhibition brings together thirteen large-scale paintings, four iron sculptures, and a ceramic work by the Franco-Beninese artist, most of them created specifically for the occasion. Presented in the museum's Galerie Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, the exhibition offers a critical reconsideration of how African people and cultures were represented, classified, and displayed during the colonial period. Drawing on historical photographs preserved in the museum's collections, Mivekannin transforms archival imagery into contemporary works that question the relationship between representation, power, and historical memory. Born in B ... More
Musée du quai Branly acquires major Yinka Shonibare sculpture for its 20th anniversary PARIS.- The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is marking its 20th anniversary with the acquisition of "Refugee Astronaut XII" (2024), a sculpture by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare that addresses migration, displacement, and the growing uncertainty of life in a world affected by conflict and climate change. Announced on October 22, 2026, the acquisition represents a significant addition to the Paris museum's collections and reinforces its commitment to bringing historical cultural heritage into dialogue with contemporary art. The acquisition was made possible through the support of Shonibare and Galerie Mennour in Paris. According to the museum, the sculpture will soon join its permanent collection display, although a specific installation date has not been announced. Standing 190 centimeters tall, the work depicts an astronaut equipped for an extraordinary journey. Rather than presenting a conventional image of technological progress and space exploration, Shonibare creates a ... More
Art Gallery of Ontario's new Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery to open September 25, 2027 TORONTO.- Today, the Art Gallery of Ontario announced that the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery will open to the public on September 25, 2027. Initiated in 2022, the ambitious expansion project is being led by architectural partners Diamond Schmitt, Selldorf Architects, and Two Row Architect, and will provide a home for the museum’s rapidly growing collections of modern and contemporary art. The project launched with a monumental lead gift of $35 million from Dani Reiss, Chairman and CEO of Canada Goose, member of the Order of Canada, and art collector. It is now fully funded, with an endowment secured to support ongoing operating costs, thanks to a strong community of supporters, the Government of Canada, and the Ontario government. “The Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery is more than an expansion project – it is Toronto and Canada announcing its global position. When this gallery opens in September 2027, the world will be made aware of the strength of the AGO c ... More
Kiruna art museum hosts four-day festival exploring land, mining, and Sámi culture KIRUNA.- For the fourth consecutive year, contemporary art will be celebrated and debated at Kin’s Konstfesten, taking place February 11–14, 2027, in Giron/Kiruna, a town on the Swedish side of Sápmi that is undergoing large-scale demolition and relocation driven by the mining industry. Over four days, one of the world’s northernmost art museums will become a space for encounters and exchange, bringing together artists, architects, researchers, curators, writers, miners, reindeer herders, and visitors for exhibitions, lectures, and conversations. The program also includes a shared meal rooted in place and an excursion to the village of Puoltsa, where representatives of the Laevas and Girjas Sámi communities will introduce participants to the land, food traditions, and challenges facing reindeer herding today. Guests and participants: Janelle Baker, Malin Brännström, Cooking Sections, Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, Olga Tsaplya Egorova, Fernando García-Dory, Goldin+Senneby, Tone Ha ... More
Kunsthalle Osnabrück presents solo exhibition by artist and designer Simone C Niquille OSNABRÜCK.- Simone C Niquille is an artist and designer. Simone C Niquille’s artworks explore how various digital technologies influence our perception of reality. For example, artificial intelligence [abbreviated to AI], i.e. self-learning computer programmes. Through their artworks, Simone C Niquille asks: How does AI actually create images? Which images is AI trained on? And which ones is it not? How does this change our conception of ourselves? Or of how we perceive spaces? In the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Simone C Niquille explores what happens when computers begin to shape our idea of home. As part of this, Simone C Niquille has undertaken an artistic research project focusing on the IKEA Bertil chair. Niquille brings this research together in an installation. [An installation is a work of art in a space.] In 2006, an image of Bertil was printed in the IKEA catalogue. For the first time ever, a computer-generated image was used instead of a photograph. 2006 marked a turnin ... More
Letters reveal soldier's sacrifice during WWII DORSET.- A collection of letters written by Sergeant Wilfred Llewellyn Mitchell to his family, before he was killed in action in Greece, has been donated to The Tank Museum. Sergeant Wilfred Llewellyn Mitchell served with the Royal Tank Regiment and wrote regularly to his wife, Beatrice, and young son, Brian, throughout his wartime service overseas. The donated letters offer a poignant view into a soldier’s life in the Second World War, and the heartbreak they experienced being away from their loved ones. In early letters from 1942, Wilfred highlights the physical intensity of a soldier’s life in the war. Wilfred writes to Beatrice: ‘Beatrice I am quite well and nothing to worry about, I see you noticed I had got thinner, I am but am still the same inside darling’. In letters from 1943, Wilfred describes the month of May as ‘getting busy’, but a month later comments that he has not been in a tank for over 9 months. Things later take a turn when he tells Beatrice he ... More
Paper positions vienna returns to Semper Depot for third annual art fair edition VIENNA.- From 12 to 15 November 2026, the third edition of paper positions vienna will take place at Semper Depot, the studio complex of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. 28 galleries from Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Latvia will be travelling to Vienna to present outstanding works of art on and made from paper, running alongside Vienna Art Week. Works by over 90 artists from 17 different countries can be discovered at paper positions vienna. In keeping with the concept of paper positions, many of the works on display demonstrate a distinctive and intensive engagement with the medium. Astrid Köppe’s (*1974) minimalist drawings bring the essence of objects and beings into sharp focus at the Carolyn Heinz Gallery. In the work of Heimo Zobernig (*1958, Art Edition-Fils), content, forms and colours are juxtaposed in a dynamic interplay, both complementing and contrasting with one another. Hubert Schmalix’s (1952–2025, Smolka Contemporary) late work features expressively paint ... More
Henry Curchod explores memory, chance, and abstraction in New York solo show NEW YORK, NY.- Kiang Malingue presents LOTTO, an exhibition of new paintings by Henry Curchod, at the gallery’s New York location. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by John Douglas Millar. Notes or a Constellation for Henry Curchod’s LOTTO 1. A statement: Henry Curchod’s art is generous. Now what to make of that? What kind of generosity is this? It is an art that embraces facility but not hierarchy. It is generous in the manner of a banquet: try a little of this, no this, this too, there’s something hidden over here, it may be exquisite, or simply surprising, or not much of anything. It is a whole poetics, associative, open to sudden beauty, an echo chamber of reference, a choreography of opacities and sudden clarities, like water. Unmappable. Funny, too. 2. On the wall in Curchod’s studio are a number of humble ex-voto paintings by unknown artists. An ex-voto can be a form of thanks and devotion toward a god or gods who have interceded in the mortal realm—praise b ... More
Rago Wright to host 'Thieves & Lovers', an auction of conceptual artist Eric Doeringer NEW YORK, NY.- On November 16, just one day before Christie's offers a collection of masterpieces estimated at approximately $100 million, Rago Wright will host Thieves & Lovers, an auction of ten works by conceptual artist Eric Doeringer. Featuring handmade recreations of paintings and sculpture by Pablo Picasso, Édouard Manet, and Old Masters, alongside three works inspired by Jeff Koons, the sale offers a playful alternative to one of the most anticipated collections of New York's November auction season. But Doeringer isn't simply making the artworks. Rago Wright is inviting him to take over its New York gallery, website presentation, and marketing channels, turning the auction itself into an extension of his practice. The works will be exhibited at Rago Wright's Chelsea gallery at 501 W 20th St. alongside the preview of its Post War & Contemporary Art auction, while the online presentation of Thieves & Lovers will give the visual conventions of a major auction-house campaign Doeringer's signatur ... More
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On a day like today, Italian sculptor and illustrator Giovanni Battista Piranesi died
November 09, 1778. Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 - 9 November 1778) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'invenzione). He was the father of Francesco Piranesi, Laura Piranesi and Pietro Piranesi. In this image: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Interior of the Basilica, Looking West (Study for plate VI of the Différentes vues de Pesto). Black chalk and wash with pen and brown ink on paper, ca. 1777-78. Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum.
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